Happy Mother’s Day from ESVA!
We’re spending some time this May leading up to Mother’s Day reflecting and remembering physicists who were mothers and women who raised some of the most well-known scientists in history. Some women, such as Marie Curie, whose daughter Irène Joliot-Curie was a Nobel Prize winning chemist, were both!
Featured among this month’s photos are snapshots of both Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie working in a lab, Maria Mayer and her daughter Marianne, and Albert Einstein’s mother, Pauline Einstein, née Koch. To browse more pictures of mothers from our archives, search for “Mother” using the quick search box on our site.
Pauline Einstein, née Koch, Albert Einstein’s mother.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Albert Einstein Archives, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Einstein Albert G37.
Marie Curie (right) with daughter and chemist Irène Joliot-Curie working in the lab.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, William G. Myers Collection. Joliot Irene Curie C8.
Ellen Adler Bohr sitting with her son, Niels Bohr, in 1902.
Niels Bohr Archive, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Bohr Niels G25.
Maria Goeppert-Mayer with her daughter, Marianne in the summer of 1935.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Maria Stein, Maria Stein Collection. Mayer Maria G6.
Dorothy Mallett, mother of Ronald Mallett, with her husband Boyd and two sons Ronald (left) and Jason (right) in a park in 1948.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Dr. Ronald Mallett. Mallett Ronald G1.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, sometimes known as the mother of physical cosmology, with fellow astronomer Annie Jump Cannon at Harvard College Observatory.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Shapley Collection. Cannon Annie Jump C1.
